Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 0

    SEO

bordergold.com

Canada's Leading Gold & Silver Dealer - Border Gold

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

bordergold.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Border Gold content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bordergold.com

Border Gold Corp. is a leading gold & silver dealer and one of the largest Royal Canadian Mint direct distributor in Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bordergold.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bordergold.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value81.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,270 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value64.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

us

40 ms

1749 ms

240 ms

slick.css

67 ms

theme-alter.css

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (166 requests) were addressed to the original Bordergold.com, 2% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to A.mailmunch.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Bordergold.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (9%)

Content Size

19.1 MB

After Optimization

17.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Bordergold.com main page is 19.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 17.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 274.3 kB

  • Original 324.8 kB
  • After minification 307.9 kB
  • After compression 50.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 274.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 17.4 MB
  • After minification 16.3 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Border Gold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 160.6 kB

  • Original 929.4 kB
  • After minification 929.3 kB
  • After compression 768.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 160.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 403.1 kB
  • After minification 403.1 kB
  • After compression 285.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Bordergold.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.7 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 139 (75%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Border Gold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 102 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bordergold.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bordergold.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bordergold.com SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bordergold.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Bordergold.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Border Gold. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: